Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

MR. MCMASTER gives notice of the school to which he belongs when he entitles his history of the United States A History of the People of the United States. 1 The late Mr. J. R. Green was not precisely ...

Maryland lawmakers are working to establish the first National Museum for the Blind in Baltimore, celebrating achievements ...

City and county officials, state representatives, and community leaders gathered at the Heinz History Center to unveil a ...

A People’s History of Sports in the United States By Dave Zirin The New Press; 268 pp. The Gist: In A People’s History of Sports in the United States Zirin sets out to deflate the misconception that ...

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As aggressively as the U.S. pursues immigrant enforcement, it has also invited and recruited immigrant workers.

In Britain, attitudes toward migrants have hardened in the decade since Brexit, a vote driven in part by hostility toward ...